The documentary filmmaker who cast light on what has been dubbed "America's most inbred family" has shared insights from his initial encounter with them. Mark Laita, the man behind the lens, first ...

A filmmaker who documented the lives of an inbred family has returned 22 years later - with the group revealing that two of them sleep in same single bed. Donors have raised thousands in the hopes of ...

A research team has proposed inbred-parent–based hybrid cassava breeding to overcome the challenges of heterozygous parent use, aiming to transform cassava breeding by purging deleterious mutations ...

Dog breeds are often recognized for distinctive traits — the short legs of a dachshund, wrinkled face of a pug, spotted coat of a Dalmatian. Unfortunately, the genetics that give various breeds their ...

The most inbred family in America has a new member in their ranks. The Whittakers - who live in the village of Odd, 75 miles south of Charleston - have been known to bark at people, communicate ...

A filmmaker has given a glimpse inside the lives of one of America's most inbred families in West Virginia after he visited them in their squalid home. The Whittakers - who live in the aptly-named ...

KING CHARLES II of Spain had an underbite so extreme he could not chew, a tongue too big to speak clearly and a body so weak he struggled to support his weight. “The Story of Civilisation”, a history ...